Western Digital launches 2.5" Scorpio HDD

Posted on Tuesday, October 05 2004 @ 18:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Western Digital launched a new 2.5" HDD for notebooks and multimedia devices. It's WD its first product for portable devices.

The Western Digital Scorpio sports the following features:

- 5,400 rpm
- Up to 12 ms seek
- 40, 60, 80 GB capacity
- EIDE
- 2 MB buffer (up to 8 MB)

According to TrendFocus shipments of 2.5" hard drives will grow by almost 25% this year (from 47 to 60 million).

Source: Digit-Life

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